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This pond is not easy to spot: after you cross the river Cam on the iron bridge at map reference 536 723 there is, on your left, a field. 300 metres after the bridge, on the left, in the corner of this field, is a patch of willow and other trees. This is the pond: it is in the angle between the A 1123 and a small bridle way that goes down to the river Cam.

The pond os badly overgrown, silted up and now looks to be little more than a reed-bed - though, as the two photos below show, there is still some open water. However - access to the water is difficult. The first picture was taken from the field (good flood-plain pasture land) and the second by wading through the nettles and elder bushes, then climbing out on an old fallen willow tree (pupolated by laetiporus sulphureus) into the middle of the pond!

The first view is from the west, the second from the east. Pictures taken 31st May 2002, 15:43.

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